>> unless people are running very overclocked and unstable machines > Yes. Have you seen the Gamer Hardware Enthusiast community? Having seen it for the last

>> unless people are running very overclocked and unstable machines > Yes. Have you seen the Gamer Hardware Enthusiast community? Having seen it for the last 2 decades: A lot of them are interested in OC, but nobody is doing it. Maybe 5%, most likely <2%. Also, most modern Motherboards do a "RAM-Training" session before boot. On unstable machines, this will result in a "test failed" once in a while, with the motherboard showing a "Boot failed, returned every clock setting to default" message, which most likely is not being read by the user, who is either not at the PC the moment it happens or in "why is this taking so long? skip, skip, skip"- mode. What does happen is that Motherboards have OC-like settings out-of-the-box/per default, which were stable most of the time and de facto-accepted by Intel, however is now hitting issues and diminishing returns: https://www.radgametools.com/oodleintel.htm https://www.radgametools.com/oodleintel.htm https://www.igorslab.de/en/intel-spielt-mit-dem-namen-und-den-daten-das-intel-baseline-profile-wird-zu-intel-default-settings/ https://www.igorslab.de/en/intel-spielt-mit-dem-namen-und-de...